Ep 33 - Understanding Temptation

Temptation doesn’t usually kick the door down; it whispers. We start with the everyday mind battles—chocolate on the table, a scroll that turns into an hour, the urge to clap back—and trace how a moment of pressure becomes a pattern. From there, we zoom out to the bigger map: the difference between the devil’s nudge and our decision, why responsibility is not shame but power, and how Jesus’ time in the wilderness gives us a practical template to fight back with truth.

We talk openly about real tools. Prayer that interrupts spirals and invites strength. Fasting that trains attention and loosens the hold of impulse. Boundaries that keep you out of the aisle and away from the timeline when you’re weakest. Self-control that grows slowly with accountability and wise community. We also explore a neglected angle: being tempted away from doing good. When you feel led to give, forgive, or show up, doubt and chatter can pull you off course. Faith reframes that tension—walk by trust, not by sight, and let God provide where you think you can’t.

This conversation carries a pastoral edge: new believers often face the heaviest pull from old habits. We offer simple language, lived examples, and scriptures like Luke 22:46 and Proverbs that keep the heart awake. We challenge each other to be careful counsellors and consistent witnesses, because people are watching our choices to decide whether hope is real. The narrow path isn’t smooth, but progress looks like quicker pauses, better friends, and a growing memory of how far grace has brought you.

Listen for clarity, courage, and a plan you can start today. If this encouraged you, subscribe, share it with someone who needs it, and leave a review—then tell us: what boundary or habit helps you resist temptation?

Transcript

Setting The Question

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. Welcome to the Unfiltered Christian Podcast. I'm Shay. And I'm Cece. And it's my question today. So I've always got a list of questions, but this question has appeared through um worship that I was doing with my son last night. And it made me think as I had to explain this to him. I thought to myself, is this a subject we've ever spoken about deeply? As Christians in general, or um yeah. Just in general. So I thought it's it's a good education. So I thought let's discuss it today. So if this makes sense, when did you first hear the word temptation? Or do can you recollect like when you first came across it? The reason why I ask this is because I feel like outside of being a Christian, we do you really hear that word in language, if that makes sense?

SPEAKER_00 1:19

I think I have heard of the word temptation for a song. Um I think that was the first time I've heard about temptation.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

Did you when you heard it in the context of that song, did you understand what it meant?

SPEAKER_00 1:41

Um, hold on, I'm trying. Oh, sorry, the group temptations. So yeah, I was thinking like I was I was thinking I know that name. So I heard it through the temptations because that was um what era was that? I can't remember. What's what were they called? That's genre uh because that's the Diana Ross and all of that. They call it yes, no town. Yeah, so I've heard about so the temptations was a group, and I think that's the first time I came across that word, temptations. Um I'm I've heard of the word tempted but not temptation. So I knew what tempted meant when you're tempted to do something but not temptation.

What Temptation Really Means

SPEAKER_03 2:26

Okay, good. Right, so then you answered my question next because I was gonna say, what does temptation mean?

SPEAKER_00 2:33

So for me, I associated the word like temptation with a group rather than an actual word. Like, you know, like for example, like ASAP Rocky, ASAP actually means as soon as possible. But how many of the generation would know that?

SPEAKER_03 2:48

I actually know what that means. Yeah, that's such a good point. Yeah, that's a good point. Um, so let's now talk about it in regards to Christianity now, because it's a word that's used a lot, it comes up in scriptures. Um what happened was the fact that me and my son were talking about when Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

Oh yeah, sorry, pause. And the Lord's Prayer. Because obviously, we we had to learn that as a child. So lead us not into temptation.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

Okay, good.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

Deliver us from evil. However, did I know what that meant? I just knew that it was maybe something bad growing up, like because it's like lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. So I just thought it was something bad. So from the song temptation and uh the hour of father prayer.

SPEAKER_03 3:45

Right, good. Um, I wanted to break this down because I feel like sometimes we don't know when we're even tempted. Um and and I'm trying to break it down where we have that understanding from the beginning, right? So that word temptation for me, I didn't really start, it didn't become significant to me until I became a Christian. Beforehand, it wasn't something that I would even be bothered about or process, right? Yeah, so where do you think temptation starts? At what point does temptation start? When you have the feeling of temptation, or you feel tempted, should I say, where do you think it starts from? Or how does it start?

SPEAKER_00 4:42

It starts from your mind. Um before it because when you're you how it works for me in my head is when you're tempted, that's the the process in your mind. Like, let's use like say for example, you're not allowed chocolate anymore, and all of a sudden you see chocolate, and your mind's like, Oh, go on, go on, nobody's around, nobody can see you. That's you being tempted. Um, but then your actions when you actually do it, is like it's no longer a temptation, you've gone through for it. So I think it's it's something in your head when you're struggling with the battle in your head, shall I do it or shall I not? That's how I feel. Or like you see certain things around you that could tempt you to do things that you're not meant to be doing.

Mind Battles And Choice

SPEAKER_03 5:41

So I'm over here laughing because I used the exact same example with my son last night, the chocolate. I literally use that same thing like chocolate on the table, and then you're thinking, you know, I was trying to really break it down to make it kid friendly. Yeah, um, so I used the same exact analogy, so I love it. You you said exactly what I said. Um, and so I said the same thing as well, it starts from the mind, right? And so when we sometimes say, okay, let me ask this question now. Okay, what is the difference between or do you think you can break down the difference between the devil tempting you and you being tempted if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 6:34

It does make sense, however, how I don't see it as myself. I think that's what it is. I think I see it as myself when I do the action. So I feel like with certain stuff that is negative that I shouldn't be doing, I feel like that's Satan play planting a seed to tempt me to do something, and then when I then do it, that is me. It's not Satan. That's how I see it. So I feel like you know, like some but sometimes they'd be like, ah, Satan made me do it. No, darling, he didn't. He just said like just like the the the the fruit, he said, You will not surely die, and she was tempted with the fruit, like, and he was just like, Come on, just eat, eat the fruit, whatever it was, mango, apple, whatever. Eat the fruit, you will you will not surely die. She was tempted, she fought, and then she bit into it, and then now we're suffering. Do you know what I mean? Years later, we're still suffering. So that it then became Eve's problem because she was just tempted. He didn't force her, he just tempted you, and we did the action.

Devil’s Nudge Vs Our Action

SPEAKER_03 7:56

I love that. I love that you broke that down because that's the breakdown that I was looking for. Um, when people say the devil made me do it, right? You've you've now taken the action. So, yes, he may have tempted you, but you have a choice, and that's the analogy I was given last night with cons. That if you you can either choose to walk away from that being tempted or that temptation, or you could choose to walk into that temptation, yeah. And so the choice is still there, even though the devil may tempt you, he doesn't make you, yeah. So the choice is still completely there, right? It's mad in it. God gives us choice, the devil gives us choice. Like, can't even come blaming, can you? Because you could be like, you could be like, it wasn't me, I didn't do anything, you're the one that did it, right? Yeah, and we really need to we really need to think about that. Um, and I started analyzing myself last night, even with that, because this reading was not even, it was just a reading for kids. But it blew my mind to where it made me start thinking, oh my gosh, like I have never broken it down like this before. Yeah. And the the what I was saying before about where it came from, it was about um Jesus being tempted in the wilderness, right? When um God took Jesus to the wilderness and he went to have some time with God and um prepare himself for his death. And um he was there for 40 days, no food, no water, no nothing. And then the devil thought, boom, hello, nice to see you. Like, I'ma come for you now because you're at your weakest. Yeah. And recently, that happened to me this year. So I'd made a commitment to God about something, I was on it for five years, and then I got to the point where I was at my end, and I gave in. So I was tempted, I was tempted for months as well, because like I kept praying against it, like I was telling God, like, no, like I want to stay committed. Um, and I was tempted for months and months, but I was at my end the way Jesus was at the end, yeah. But what I love that the reading said was that Jesus knew if he gave in to those things that the devil was tempting him with, that he wouldn't be able to save us from our sins. So I was like, imagine if Jesus did not like he gave in, sorry, to the devil to one of those things because he tempted him three times, wasn't it? With three different things. And imagine if Jesus said yes to one of those things, we wouldn't be here now, yeah. And I was thinking that is crazy, that like blows my mind, and I was thinking, imagine I had my situation and I couldn't walk away because as far as I'm concerned, it was still life of death because it was it's about my salvation, yeah. So it's like I feel like if we have that mindset more often than less often when it comes to being in these situations, maybe that might just help us to really stay on path with Elohim, yeah, and focus on minds. And so this is why I wanted to do this today because I feel like there's so many people. I'm I'm even aiming this more for people that's at the beginning of their journey because I feel like this is just not spoken about enough, and the breakdown of how you can be tempted is just not spoken about enough. Yeah, I didn't start learning about this until way down in my journey. Um, and being at the beginning of your journey, the enemy does not want you to come to Christ, and so that's the time you're gonna be fighting so many. I'm not saying you don't fight when you're in your journey, I'm just saying there's so many things you're gonna be fighting from the old as you're becoming the new in Christ. Yeah, that you have to be able to realize where the devil is coming for you at? Trust me, he'll bring more to you, but it's great when you're able to recognize it so you know how to fight it. And you have the tools, you're ready, you know?

SPEAKER_02 12:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

Um, talking about tools, what are the tools do you think that we should have or use, or whatever it may be, what tools do you think it is that we need when it comes to being in that position of being tempted and trying to fight temptation?

SPEAKER_00 13:04

That you don't know yourself.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

Ooh, honey.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

I feel like that's what I tell myself. Like, you think you know yourself, but you don't because you were created in his image. Um, so he knows you, he knows you, and I feel like a lot of us um put ourselves in positions like let's use sex, for example. Um, because that's very, very easy to explain.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

Yeah, yeah.

Jesus In The Wilderness

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Um, and I feel like the reason why Yahoo said that we should wait until marriage is because he knows sex comes with feelings and emotions, and it lets off endorphins, and you think, oh yeah, this is amazing. That Satan is more easier to trap you with those feelings. So, like, you know, you could be walking up and down, and all of a sudden you'd be like, Oh, I feel for sex or I feel like for oral or whatever it may be, because you've now attached those feelings, and now you you've your body's feeling like, Oh yeah, I need to feel this. But in his word in Proverbs 3, verses 5 verses 6, it says, Trust in Yahoo with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding because he's telling you, you don't understand what you're about to do here, you don't understand the hold that you're about to dig, and you and then we, especially ladies, because I don't I can't talk for men, but I think women feel like we know everything, and we don't, yeah. We know certain things, but we'll be like, I'll be able to, I'll be able to to like go through this and just be able to let go, no, and then you find yourself trapped. The same with eating that chocolate, you're not meant to eat it, but you have a little bit. Now the bar is done. You just said that you was gonna have one little piece, and you're like, Oh, let's have it, and then then the packet is finished. And he's saying to you, my child, I know you more better than you know yourself. Do not be tempted. And I've I think one thing that I've one um Bible verse that I'm trying to learn at the moment is Proverbs 28, verses 26, and it says, He that trusts in his in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered. And the reason why I'm trying to learn that text is because we like to play with ourselves, and what I mean by that, we act stupid, like we know, like I'm gonna like you're having a chocolate craving, but you're you're go you're in the the sweet section, and then you know, oh yeah, I'm not I'm not gonna pick it up, and then you're like, Oh yeah, but they do like a really miniature size, oh let me just pick that up and you know, I'll have it later on in the year, and then you why are you lying to yourself? You're gonna have it with a cup of tea. Do you know what I mean? But we make up these things and then we blame Satan for them when it's just like no, we're actually we do a lot of this work ourselves, you know. Like sometimes he might just give us a little tiny bit, and then we go and make a whole plantation of whatever, and then be like, oh, Satan made me do it. No, so with that with that verse that says, when it says, He that trusts in his own heart, y'all knows that we are weak, he knows that we are weak by flesh, we're born into sin. So he's saying, Rely on me, turn away from whatever it is, and you will be delivered. And I think with us, we think, oh no, let me just stick my foot in the water and I will deliver myself. No, darling, no, sir, you can't deliver yourself, only he can deliver you. And I say it to myself all the time, and I think it's even harder for us who obey, um, especially with people that hurt us, because it's like you're saying we must forgive that person 70 times seven, because it can work different ways, so it can work with like in a negative sense, but in a positive sense, sometimes you're like, Lord, I'm still being hurt, still being hurt by this person, but he's just like, trust and believe me, like this person could be saved by you, could be all these other things that you're not sure about. Like, he's amazing, you know. It's like Shay and I was even talking, like, I we're we're we're giving back to a charity. One of my friends has got a charity, and both of us money is short, but we know that he's gonna bless us rather than us saying, like, and I'm using this example because it can work in different ways, like, we're short on money, but y'all's giving us all these ideas, but he's giving it, he's putting the Holy Spirit on us to say, like, do these things, and we're saying, like, do you know what? Like, if we was meant to listen to the other way, which is our way, like, oh, do you know what? Like, nah, I can't see myself going through, but are we not asking him to be our provider? Do we not trust in him? So, all of these things we gotta think that okay, let him lead, he will never leave you nor forsake you. So, even in positive ways, sometimes we want to restrict ourselves and think that we know better. Lean not on your own understanding, he will provide.

Early Faith And Heavy Temptations

SPEAKER_03 18:19

Amen. I couldn't have said that better. I was I was looking at scriptures that you're speaking as well, and I wanted to add this in. I came across this because I've never looked up different scriptures about temptation, but even Jesus himself said in Luke chapter 22, verses 46, Why are you sleeping? He asked them, get up and pray so that you will not give in to temptation. So that was the disciples, right, speaking to the disciples, but reading it without knowing where it came from, because that's how I I was just reading it blank and straight, like from where it came from. It's like for real. Like, why are we sleeping? Do you know what I mean? Like, we are tempted every day. Get up and pray, you know, pray like pray, like in the morning is so important, not just in the morning, but do you know what I mean? We need to be praying all the time. Because temptation is always there, you don't even know when. And I feel like as human beings, I just laugh at us because we always think like, nah man, I'm not gonna give in to that. And I've had this conversation with so many people, like, in regards to like being tempted to do something with a scenario. And I'm like, they're like, nah man, like if I'm in a situation, I'll I'll be able to fight it. I'm like, are you sure? Yeah. Because I've learned myself that I can't. Like, I I've I've I've become I've like I've given into reality, like, you know what? Actually, I need to not do this to do this. Like, for example, like I had this back and forth about um my sister kept telling me I need to get TikTok, yeah. And I said, I don't want TikTok because I feel like I'm gonna end up addicted. And she's like, no, but it's so good for this and that. But like, I've purposely avoided not being on it because I've already got other social media apps, and if I dare touch those apps, right? That's why I turn notifications off for most of my apps. Because if I jump on there, I know myself. I'm not gonna sit there and be like, I'm not gonna be tempted to be sitting scrolling for an hour, I'm gonna be fine. I'm lying to myself. I've I've learned that actually I will be doing that. So I've had to put restrictions on myself. And so that's what we have to do. Now, I don't do this with everything, don't get it twisted, but I try my best to do it. Start with something, and you start with another thing, and another, and eventually you'll get to the point where you have control, and it's about building self-control, which is what that is linked to, it's self-control. And it's not easy, self-control is not easy at all. Guys, I I can testify to that, but it's about giving yourself boundaries in different areas, and eventually you'll get to the point where you can do it. Yeah, and you're not doing it in your own strength. So let's get that one really right as well. Because when I say you can do it, you're not not in your own strength, you're doing it through Elohim, who is your strength. So that's not what it's gonna be. So let's not start off with that. When you're when it talks about fighting temptation, you're not fighting temptation on your own. If you're trying to do it on your own, just just nah, it's not gonna work. That's why it's not working, it's because you're trying to do it in your own strength. And I've had to remind myself of that, and I've had to cry out to Elohim because I'm like, I am so weak, I can't do this. Like, literally, I cannot do this. I I can't. I've tried and I just can't. And I need you to save me. I'm at a point where I'm like, I need you to save me because I do not want my immoral ways to take me away from my salvation. Yeah, no way, I cannot have that. So you just have to plead and say, Lord, help me, because I cannot do it in my own way, in my own strength. It's not working. So that's the one advice I will say, and the one tool I would give. Prayer is the one. Fasting is the one because this is something right here, out of all the things to fight, when it comes to temptation, that's one thing you can't do by yourself. Everything else you can't do by yourself. But trust me, this one thing here, it can grab you and take over you in a way that you won't even realize. You will get so caught up in that sin because of that tempting and tempting and tempting. And you're like, you giving, and you're giving in as well each time. You're like, like Cece was saying, Oh, I'm just gonna have a beer of that chocolate. I'm just gonna have a beer that one just a little bit more. And you'll be so caught up now at this point, you'll be lost, and that's what the devil wants. He wants you to be lost, but that's no, that's not where you want to be. You do not want to be to that point where you cannot, you're dragging to find your way back to God. You don't want to be in that place. So while you're at that point where you're recognizing it and you're still hearing the Holy Spirit speaking, get on it right now. Right now. That's the point where you want to be putting a stop to it, not continuing. Because think about the fact that you have worked so hard to get to this place, or even Elohim has worked so hard to bring you to him. Think about all that you've been through, think about how far you've come. Do you really want to go back there? Reflect. Reflection is very important. Yeah, don't forget about where you came from, but remember you don't want to go back there. That's not where you want to be. Remember, you're renewed in Christ, so that's the old you. You're becoming a new you who's created you to be. So always reflect back to be like, you know what? Nope, that's not where I want to be. That's not where I want to go back to, I want to move forward. The narrow path is not easy. You don't want to stare to the left, you want to stare to the right. Even though it may be hard, you might be trotting it a bit slow, but at least you're still on it.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

And that's where you want to stay. For sure.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

I will say as well, like when you've hit when you're on a hard path, sometimes when you feel like giving up, you have to pray for the right people to be around you. Because sometimes Satan sends his little angels to discourage you. Um, and then you think, oh yeah, I might as well just give up because XYZ said XYZ, so I'm gonna give up. So be careful, be very mindful of it. Because that's what I've been praying for, like people around me, around your children, because children are influenzable as well. Um, especially like um if you're a single parent, whether you're a mum or dad, or a guardian, or wherever it may be, there's times when you're trying to install things into your children, and um that is correct, and then you've got people outside that will be trying to teach your children something different, um, and then you're challenging with your child. So I feel like there's times where you have that as well, but just know that you're doing the right thing and to continue to pray. Um, especially like if two parents have two different lifestyles, like you might be trying to install a yacht-faring lifestyle where the father or the mother doesn't agree with that. Um, so that could also be challenging, but to to just continue to pray and don't be tempted to give up and think like, do you know what? Let me just give up here, just keep pushing through. Because again, temptation is in so many different ways that we don't even realize sometimes, like when we just want to like just give up because of other people around us trying to challenge us what we believe in.

Tools: Prayer, Fasting, Boundaries

SPEAKER_03 26:36

Very true. I love what you said about praying about the right person around people around you, very important, very, very important.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

Because sometimes you could even have people that are in church that is encouraging you to do foolishness. It's true, or like be, and when I say foolishness, it could be like being more horrible to a person or doing this or doing that, like you'll be surprised, or making you feel silly for doing the correct thing.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Agreed, very true, it's very true, you know. And um stuck may be a little bit more, I'm gonna say a little bit more stable and able to kind of support others when they're struggling with temptation. Um, I'm saying us, let me not even say me. I'm still in my struggles. But I'm just saying, you know, I feel like us as well, we have to be careful with um mindful, like you said, you're talking about those people being around them, but I'm speaking now about me and you and us. We have to be very mindful of what we are saying. We need to think about it very carefully. Um, what advice we're giving and how we're responding to someone who's tempted to do something. And like we say, it doesn't have to just be, we're all tempted every day, like I said. And you could be tempted to lash out on someone, you could be tempted to cuss tempted to cuss somebody out, you could be tempted to fight somebody, and you know, like someone might come to us about that beforehand, and we need to be really careful with how we're responding and how we are supporting um our brothers and sisters in Christ as well. Because um with us being that first quote unquote first point of call, God is obviously your first point of call, but you know what I mean? For that advice, we have to make sure that we are given best counsel as possible. Um just be really careful, um, and even if it's not just advice, even in your actions, um when we're being tempted and people are watching us and how we respond. Um and the reason why I started off with all of that, because I'm trying to phrase it in a way where because someone was telling me about someone at work who was um from our denomination, and um, you know, they looked to that person, they watched their actions, and the things that they did was really, really like we're not perfect, but because that person knew they were a Christian, and when they saw their actions towards people, like very like petty, like reporting people, lying about them, all these kind of things, and it's like that isn't that person could be thinking about okay, I want to get closer to God, I want to go to church, I want to do whatever, but because they're seeing the character of that individual, they're like, mm-mm, no man, I don't think I wanna I don't think I wanna do this thing, you know? Um even us as well.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

We have to be laughing because my husband says it all the time. He says, like, uh there's um there's demons in the church, not Christians. And I'm like, wow, that's a bit Yeah, my dad's

SPEAKER_03 30:00

Just the same thing. But that's just the same thing. But I'm just saying, even when I was hearing about the stuff that this person told me that this person did, I was just like, wow, like that's there was no consciousness. Like you weren't really thinking, like, you went that far to take down even a friend. So like this person was even your friend, and you went that far to like take them down. And it's like, why? Like, we need to analyze our characteristics as y'all's children. Like, we really need to be, we need to watch ourselves, you know. And so, whilst we are tempted all the time, man, give yourselves daily, we need to die to self. We really need to die to self every day. We are witnesses everywhere we go. And if someone is witnessing you, like, like you said, you're you're in your mind, you thought about it. When people be saying they see red or they see black or whatever colour, I'm not saying you don't, but as you go through your relationship with with Yahweh, in time you will start to become more cautious in how you handle things, you'll think more before you do. Do you not find that? Do you find that you think a bit more?

Self‑Control And Weakness

SPEAKER_00 31:16

Yeah, you know what? One thing that you said that I want to say, and you guys can take it whichever way you want, because sometimes we find ourselves in this situation, and I want to give this as a scenario, but I want you guys to generalize it in general. If y'all places something on your heart, let's say uh you have a friend or a cousin, whoever it is, colleague, and they were saying that they're in need, that maybe, like you know, they don't have food or whatever, and y'all has placed it on your heart to feed them or give them money or whatever, you decide to help them, and then um you're doing this because it's gen general, right? And then somebody says, Oh, you know, that person is lying. I think we automatically don't want to help. Like, let's say, for example, you've cooked them food and you're gonna take it to them, or you've taken out money, or you were just about to transfer money and somebody said something. That is not our position to then be like, Do you know what? I'm not gonna give. Because y'all has said to give. It's not about us sometimes. Sometimes we look at our us like we're leaning on our own understanding. Whether we don't know, because again, there's a lot of people that lie because they don't they see that this person's being helped, and they say they'll be like, Oh, you know, like XYZ's giving them food um the other day. We don't know, like that could be that person probably hasn't even eaten, but we're seeing things and and building up a picture for ourselves, and then now we're in that temptation of being mean rather than giving. And I think we live in a world now where life is hard. Life is a struggle for a lot of us right now, and we then become mean without us thinking because of that, like the same thing that I was saying, like other people that has now tempted us, because we was gonna we were gonna go and give that food, we was gonna go and transfer that money, we were gonna go and do whatever, and now we've been in been tempted to not help because of what somebody has said, or because we feel like do you know what I don't think this person even needs this because they might have said something. So, like sometimes we as Shay was saying, like we really gotta look up ourselves and how we're being and how we're acting, because Yahweh the one that's gonna judge, we shouldn't judge other people because we're gonna be judged when he said, You know what? I I told you to go and do this. What who who who do you think you had to take it upon yourself to not give anymore when he placed you in that position to give whatever?

SPEAKER_03 34:03

I love that. Um when you said that that that end part, like when you said that that Elohim would say, I told you, it reminds me of that. Um I don't remember that scripture, but you know, like that scripture that talks about like I told you to something about feeding the orphans and the widows and take care of the widows or something like that. That scripture. Can't remember, I think I'm paraphrasing a lot here, but he was just talking about like, you know, like feeding the orphans and take care of my widows or something like that. I can't remember where that comes from as well in the Bible. Um, but that's just what it reminds me of. Like, we have a duty. Um and like you said, and and you know what, that's why it's important to even when you are gonna give or do something, to not always always speak of it. Um because especially beforehand, because there is someone that's always gonna tempt you away from doing something. To be like, oh, you don't have it right now, like don't stress yourself, or don't do what I mean. Um but then you forgetting that Yah will provide, like you were saying before, like He will provide. So you have to remember you walk by that faith, and you do not walk by sight, and so it's important that you just focus your mind when the Holy Spirit is moving in you to do what's needed and not let someone tempt you away from what doing what's right. Very important. Um so I love what you said, that's very, very powerful.

SPEAKER_00 35:53

It's in Deuteronomy 10 verses 18. He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. Therefore, I love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

SPEAKER_03 36:12

Thank you. Thank you very much. So there you go. You know, it is our job. I know we're still on the subject of temptation, but it is our job to not be tempted away from doing right as well. So I love the fact that we've touched on both sides. You can be tempted to do wrong, but you can also be tempted away from doing what's right.

SPEAKER_02 36:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:38

Um, sorry, I just that's just wow. I love that. I love that we've we've touched both sides because it's important. Sometimes you might not think, you might not actually think that you are that's what's happening, but it's that's why it's important to be connected with the spirit to recognize that actually this is what's happening, you know. And you don't want to lose out on doing what's right because someone has swayed you out of not doing it. That's what we're here for, you know. That's what that's what God needs us for. That's why he needs all his children, because he's not physically here, so he needs us to physically carry out those blessings for others.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

Yeah.

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SPEAKER_03 37:25

Of course he could do it, but come on. What does he have his what does he have his hair for? You know? It's like when when people have children, like, what did I make them for? You're here to help, you know? That's what we're here to do. We're here to help. Um, yeah. Wow. Hmm. Yeah, I don't have any more questions, but if you did have anything else you wanted to add.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

No, I don't. For the first time, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:53

Yeah, because this has covered everything where I wanted to cover. Um, so I'm gonna say a prayer. Because this is a heavy, heavy subject, and um, you know, for all of us, because it's not easy. So let's pray. Elachim Yashua Yahweh, creator of the heavens and the earth. Father Lord, thank you so much, Lord, for placing this upon my heart. So many of us every day are struggling with being tempted or with temptation. Lord, it's not easy. It's around us everywhere we go. We're tempted to argue back with the person on the bus or we're tempted to shout at the person in the supermarket because they didn't do this correctly. Temptation is everywhere, but remind us and help us that we are daughters and sons of the king up in heaven. Lord, help us to remember that we are your children, that we are your examples. Help us, Lord, for all of us who are struggling with temptation. Whatever that may be, whatever that may look like. Father Lord, please help us, Lord. Deliver us, Lord, because we no longer want to stay trapped in our temptations, Lord. We don't want it to have um power over us, Lord. Father Lord in heaven, we don't want it to take over us anymore. We want to be freed of our temptations. So, Father Lord, please help us, God. And for all of those who are at the beginning of their journey with you, Lord, who are struggling, we're still being tempted of the old self. Father God, help them. Help them to have grace upon themselves. But Lord in heaven, I just pray, Lord, you may help them, Lord, to take each step as it comes, to take each day as it comes, Lord, as they're on their journey, Lord, with you. And so, Elohim, help us to support each other as brothers and sisters in Christ, to pray for each other and be there for each other. Help us to set the right examples so that we can show others, Lord, how you can fight temptation, that you can walk away from the things or those who are tempting you, Lord. And we can be freed of those things. Only through you, of course, not in our own strength, but in yours. We love you and we thank you. We just pray, Lord, that this episode may touch at least one person, Lord, who is in need of hearing this, Lord. In your son's name, Jesus Christ, as we pray, amen.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

Amen. And if this episode touched you or moved you, please share and tell a friend to tell a sister to tell a brother to tell her auntie to tell a grandma.

SPEAKER_03 40:53

Alright, guys, take care. Lots of love. Bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

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